Category Archives: 48 Hour Films

Your challenge here (if you choose to accept it,) is to watch this video without looking at the time shuttle. Also, find yourself if you can, in this societal morality play.

Short filmmakers around the world use the opportunity of the 48 Hour Film Project to focus and showcase their talents. The City Winners from over 120 cities worldwide gather for Filmapalooza to screen their work and to meet other filmmakers and the event producers.

The 48 Hour Film Project (48HFP) is the oldest and largest time-based filmmaking competition in the world. It is now conducted in over 120 cities worldwide. San Francisco held its 14 annual competition earlier this summer and the Awards will be presented on Oct 22nd.

Here are the nominees for the 14th annual San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project.

For a long time, we were a fan of college basketball, but we found that most fans were just hoping for their bets to pan out. Then we followed celebrity poker for a bit, and that offered some entertainment, but really lacked the drama we craved.

Professional wrestling held an allure, but we soon realized that the narrative was just playing to our unsatisfied sense of justice.

Then… then we discovered Marble Racing and all of our prayers were answered. (BTW, headsets on, the audio for this is NSFW. On the other hand, the sounds you’ll make when you watch are probably also evidence that your boss can point to when making an argument that you’re supposed to be working!)

If you crave drama, and laughs, and surprises, you’ll want to keep your eye on the San Jose 48 Hour Film Project coming up in just a few days. You can still enter a team to make a movie and compete, and you can definitely be at the screenings late this month to see what stories emerged. It is not to be missed!

We’ve lost count of how many gems the filmmaking team Film Antics has produced in time-based film competitions

They’ve brought home awards for Cinematography, Acting, and have finished as City Winner or runner up on multiple occasions. This entry brought them the prize for Best Comedy.

You can see the latest 48 Hour Film Project entry from this team on Wed night (Aug 19) at 7pm in San Jose. Their film will screen with about a dozen others at the Camera 12 Cinema. You can get tickets here.